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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.IOIIN B.

`iARY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF rlO MARIE OIIOTIIILDE DELAVY, OF SAME ILAOE.

ELECTRICAL COOKING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of VLetters Patent No. 608,952, dated August 9, 1898.

Application lgl Marcil 14, 1398. Serial N0- TS. (N0 model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHN B. CARY, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Electrical Cooking Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

In the description .of the said invention which follows reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure l is an exterior side view of the improved electrical cooking apparatus, showing the same as open or in condition for the reception of articles to be cooked. Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. l with a part thereof removed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section ofthe apparatus when closed. Fig. at is a partly-sectional side View of the apparatus, showing the upperand lower sections thereof as ext-endedor set farther apart than in the preceding figures. Fig. 5 is a front View of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 illustrates a modification.

Refr-nring` now to Figs. l, 2, and 3 of the drawings, A and B are metal boxes, of substantially the same size and shape, connected by strap-hinges O, four of which are employed, two of them being at the rear end of the boxes and the others at the sides of the same. The hinges are secured to the lower boxA by screws a. The members of the hinges above the lower box are slot-ted, the slots which are denoted by b, extending to their ends, as shown in Figs. l and 2. The slotted portions of the strap-hinges are connected to the upper box B by means of screws c and thumb-nuts d, as shown in Fig. l.

\Vithin each box is a system of heatingwires D, of iron, in gangs, three of which are shown, and the three gangs are connected by wires e, which run through eyes f at one end, and the other end of the gangs is united to the leading-wires g, which are of copper, and the whole is in an electric circuit. The wires D, having a greater resistance than the copper leading-wires g, become heated by the electrical current, as is common in electric cooking apparatus.

Referring to Figs. 2 and 3, it will be seen that the wires D are electrically insulated and tied together by means of insulating-strips E and the screws F.

Gr G are corrugated trays, of iron, with their adjoining faces covered with enamel or some other suitable hard smooth electricity-insulating material placed over the gangs of heated wires and resting on the edges of the boxes A and B in such manner as to admit of their being slid from over the boxes to allow of access to the wires underneath in case of disarrangement or for cleaning purposes.

By reference to Figs. 1 and 2 it will be seen that the corrugated trays G extend beyond the fronts of the boxes A and B. The object of this arrangement is to allow of the placing of a pan II in such position with reference to the boxes as to catch drippings of grease from their ends. The extension of the upper tray protects the lower one from the cooling effect of air and prevents the grease from hardening after it has passed from over the heatingwires.

By corrugating the trays, as shown, the article to be cooked-for instance, a steak-is supported by heated surfaces, between which there is ample space for the passage of greasedrippings from the meat, and the enameled surface does not burn into the meat, as would a metallic one, the heat being modified and more evenly distributed than if a good heatconductor were employed.

By slottin g the upper members of the straphinges and providing them with the thumbnuts, as described, the boxes may be set apart to adapt the apparatus for the cooking of steaks which are thicker than the normal distance between the corrugated trays, as shown in Fig. 3. This arrangement also admits of the separation of the boxes, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, whereby the apparatus is adapted as a roaster, when a rectangular shield I is placed between the trays to confine the heated air around the meat. This shield is provided with a revoluble shaft 7L, as shown in Fig. at, whereby a joint or fowl may be suspended between the trays. One end of this shaft is fitted with a handle j, whereby the article while roasting maybe occasionally turned, so that all sides will be subjected to heat radiated from the trays.

In order that the roast may stand in any position, the shaft is furnished with a notched wheel o1' disk J, and a spring-pawl K, fas- IOO tened to the end of the shield, rests on the circumference of the notched disk.

In Fig. 6 a series of ordinary incandescent lamps M are shown as substituted for the heating-wires D.

I claim as my invention- 1. In an electrical cooking apparatus, the combination of two boxes each one having therein heating-wires and a corrugated tray situated over the wires, and strap-hinges one member of the same being adjustably attached to a box whereby the boxes may be separated and held in a separated position, substantially as specified.

2. In an electrical cooking apparatus, the combination of two boxes havin g therein heating appliances, substantially as described, and a connecting-hinge one member of which is permanently secured to the lower box, and

JOHN B. CARY.

Witnesses:

DANL. FISHER, H. CoNsTANTINE. 

